Privately-owned specialist retail investment boutique Modella Capital has acquired Hobbycraft, the largest arts and crafts retailer in the UK, from British private equity firm Bridgepoint, which has fully exited its investment. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
International law firm Weil has appointed private equity dealmaker Alice Yuan as a partner in the firm’s private equity group in its Los Angeles office, which opened earlier this summer along with a new San Francisco office.
TA Associates and Montagu Private Equity have agreed to become co-controlling shareholders of Harvest, a French fintech owned by Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co.
Kenya-based impact investment fund DOB Equity has appointed Karen Serem Waithaka as Chief Executive Officer.
North Carolina-based private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners has made a growth investment in cybersecurity company MOXFIVE.
Australia’s largest pension fund AustralianSuper has written off over AUD1.1bn in equity and loans linked to US-based online education start-up Pluralsight, marking the fund’s largest single loss in its venture capital investments to date, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.
CenterOak Partners, a $2.5bn private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in middle market companies, has closed CenterOak Equity Fund III, at its hard cap with total capital commitments of over $1.1bn.
Vista Equity Partners is in discussions with both banks and private credit lenders as it explores the options for securing approximately $1bn in debt financing to fund its acquisition of software company Jaggaer, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The NFL has officially lifted some of its strictest ownership rules, allowing certain private equity firms, including Arctos Partners, Ares Management and Sixth Street Partners to purchase stakes in franchises, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has made three new appointments to its investment team in Scotland – Investment Managers Victoria McLaren and Craig McGill, and Investment Associate James Warner.
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